Marine Corps integrates male and female platoons during boot camp for the first time

“Unlike other services, the Marines have not fully integrated female recruits.”

For the first time in its history, the Marine Corps will integrate female and male platoons during boot camp. Unlike the other services, the Marine Corps has not fully integrated women and men during recruit training. Instead, at Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, the first...

Shutdown Leaves Food, Medicine and Pay in Doubt in Indian Country

“"We're from the government and we've come to help you."”

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — For one tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the government shutdown comes with a price tag: about $100,000, every day, of federal money that does not arrive to keep health clinics staffed, food pantry shelves full and employees paid. The tribe...

“Kill the Indian, and Save the Man, ” Capt. Richard H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans.

Source: Official Report of the Nineteenth Annual Conference of Charities and Correction (1892), 46–59. Reprinted in Richard H. Pratt, “The Advantages of Mingling Indians with Whites,” Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the “Friends of the Indian” 1880–1900 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

Senate passes legislation to gather data on missing, murdered Native American women

The U.S. Senate on Friday unanimously approved Savanna’s Act, legislation that aims to gather data on missing and murdered Native American women. The act, introduced by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., is named for Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, who was abducted and killed last year in Fargo....

Ocasio-Cortez Threatens To Retaliate Against Trump Jr. Over Meme, Twitter Explodes With Accusations Of Ethics Violations

“A source close to Donald Trump Jr. says that they expect an ethics complaint will be filed.”

Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatened to use the powers of her elected office to retaliate against Donald Trump Jr. on Friday after the president's son posted a meme trolling her on his personal Instagram account. "I have noticed that Junior here has a habit of posting nonsense about...

Court puts hold on controversial Indian Child Welfare Act ruling

A controversial ruling which struck down the Indian Child Welfare Act as unconstitutional has been put on hold pending an appeal by tribes across the nation. In an order on Monday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay requested by the tribes. The decision came over the objections...

Pelosi: Dem Majority Will 'Reverse' Trump Efforts to Secure Border, Enforce Immigration Laws

Democrats will seek to undo President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure the border and enforce the nation’s immigration laws, House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) promised in a statement Saturday. When her party assumes the House majority next term, it will pass a bill to allow...

How One Murder Could Reshape Oklahoma

“The Supreme Court may declare that half the state is still Indian country under federal law.”

Carpenter v. Murphy isn’t one of the more high-profile Supreme Court cases in recent years, but it may lead to one of the most consequential decisions this term. The dispute, for which the court heard oral arguments on Tuesday, is relatively straightforward: Does the Muscogee Creek Nation’s...

Hopi Lose Arguments On Snowbowl Snowmaking In State Supreme Court Ruling

The Hopi Tribe cannot claim special damage on land controlled by the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday, all but ending an eight-year legal battle and ensuring the ski area can continue using machine-made snow on the state's most popular slopes.  The Hopi...

How One Murder Could Reshape Oklahoma

“The Supreme Court may declare that half the state is still Indian country under federal law.”

Carpenter v. Murphy isn’t one of the more high-profile Supreme Court cases in recent years, but it may lead to one of the most consequential decisions this term. The dispute, for which the court heard oral arguments on Tuesday, is relatively straightforward: Does the Muscogee Creek Nation’s...